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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) - Woodblock, Portrait of a Japanese Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
This intricate woodblock print is a fine demonstration of Kunisada's later works. Depicting a beautiful lady dressing in floral kimono and decorative hair pieces. The signature to th...
Category
19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn - 1778 Mezzotint, The Rabbi
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking mezzotint portrait with traditional inscription along the bottom.The rabbi sits facing the viewer with his hands clasped across his front. He wears a compressed white turb...
Category
Early 18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
After Millais (1829-1896) - Lithograph, Cherry Ripe with Artist's Signature
Located in Corsham, GB
A lithograph with hand colouring after John Everett Millais's painting 'Cherry Ripe' (1879). Millais's signature in pen and ink to the lower-right edge of the substrate. Presented gl...
Category
19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) - Late 19th Century Etching, Lost At Sea
Located in Corsham, GB
An emotional and atmospheric etching depicting a pensive and serious woman sitting on the grassy shore by the sea, staring out wistfully into the gathering grey clouds of the broodin...
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19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 14.97 in. W 11.03 in.
Utagawa Sadahide (1807–1879) - Mid 19thC Japanese Woodblock, Kabuki Play House
By Utagawa Sadahide
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant and bold ukiyo-e woodblock showing three kabuki actors in traditional attire surrounded by banners. Cartouches with kanji narrate the story around them. The artist's signat...
Category
19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Smith - Original Lithograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Smith is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by an Anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
In good conditions.
The artwork is presented through expressive a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 12.6 in. W 8.67 in. D 0.04 in.
Japanese Lady - Original Lithograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Lady is an original lithograph Hand-retouched artwork realized in the early 20th century by an anonymous artist.
Good conditions with some small folding along the margin.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 29.93 in. W 19.3 in. D 0.04 in.
Pieter Van Schuppen - 1665 Engraving, Gabriel Nicolas De La Reynie
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine engraved portrait of the founder of the modern police force,Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (1625-1709), engraved by Pieter Van Schuppen (1627-1702) after the original portrait b...
Category
18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
H 14.26 in. W 11.15 in.
Christ Carrying the Cross - Small Passion - Woodcut - 16thC Proof Impression
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Albrecht Dürer
(German, 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528)
Christ Carrying the Cross
Woodcut, ca. 100 x 127 mm
For sale a lovely 16th century woodcut proof impression from the small Pass...
Category
16th Century Naturalistic Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Albrecht DürerChrist Carrying the Cross - Small Passion - Woodcut - 16thC Proof Impression, ca. 1509
H 5.01 in. W 39.38 in. D 0.4 in.
Woman at Mirror - Original Etching by Maurice Hardy - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman at Mirror is an original modern artwork realized by Maurice Hardy in the early 20th Century.
Mixed colored etching on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right marg...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 16.54 in. W 10.63 in. D 0.08 in.
Japanese Woman - Original woodcut print - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese woman is an original moder artwork realized in the half of 19th century by a japanese artist.
Mixed colored woodcut print.
Includes black frame: 53 x 3 x 39 cm
The artwor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
H 14.57 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.04 in.
19th Century Colored Currier Lithograph "Death of Washington: Dec. 14, 1799"
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Alamo, CA
In this 1846 Nathaniel Currier colored lithograph entitled "Death of Washington, Dec: 14. A. D. 1799.", George Washington is seen on his death-bed, ill or recently succumbed from a r...
Category
Mid-19th Century Other Art Style Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 14.13 in. W 18.88 in. D .88 in.
J. Houbraken & G. Vertue - 1747 Engravings, The Heads of Illustrious Persons
Located in Corsham, GB
An original and complete 1747 leather bound copy of 'The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain', with one hundred and eight engravings by both the Dutch engraver Jacobus Houb...
Category
18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Charles Knight (1743-1826) - Early 19th Century Engraving, Maiden in the Woods
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine stipple engraving with etched detail depicting a scene from a painting by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)
Inscribed.
Well presented in a 19th Century Hogarth style molded wood f...
Category
19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Knight - Original Etching by Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell - 1848
Located in Roma, IT
Knight is an original artwork realized by Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell (1822 -1885) .
Etching print. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Passpartout cm 70x50,5
Good co...
Category
1840s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 18.71 in. W 14.57 in. D 0.08 in.
Two Friends - Lithograph by Bernard Naudin - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Two Friends is a Lithograph print realized by Bernard Naudin (1876-1946).
Signed on plate on the right corner. Passpartout cm 62,5x48
The artwork is in good condition .
Bernard É...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 12.6 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.08 in.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1826-1869) - Mid 19th Century Japanese Woodblock, Coy Geisha
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine example of an Edo period woodblock shows a Geisha smiling with a coy tilt of her head. She is in a traditional kimono tied with an obi and is carrying a string of tasseled ...
Category
19th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
John Smith after Michael Dahl - 1719 Mezzotint, Mr Joseph Martyn
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mezzotint portrait of the esteemed London merchant, Joseph Martin. The print has an inscription at the bottom of the plate with the name of the sitter and date of painting and...
Category
18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Portrait de Guillaumin au Pendu
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Cotignac, FR
Etching on laid paper titled "Guillaumin au Pendu," 1873, by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). Signed 'in the image' with Cezanne's signature monogram symbol (Hanging Man). The engraving dep...
Category
1870s Post-Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
Faithful in Chains - Original Etching - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Faithful in chained is an original etching realized by an Anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
In good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork is presented through deft en...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 14.97 in. W 11.03 in. D 0.04 in.
Le Mangabey Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mangabey, Buff, Simia Aethiops, Linne", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Bapt...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
H 30.5 in. W 23.25 in. D 2 in.
Saints Simon and Matthew
Located in New York, NY
ISRAHEL VAN MECKENEM
ca. 144045 Bocholt 1503
Saints Simon and Matthew
engraving; 212 x 142 mm
Geisberg 249; Lehrs and Hollstein 298 first state (of two)
WATERMARK
quartered coat ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
King Henry VII
By George Virtue
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original copper plate engraving on laid paper by English artist George Virtue (1684-1756) titled "King Henry VII", 1736. Text at lower margin: "from an ancient Limning in the Roya...
Category
1730s Baroque Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Copper
Peggy
By Sidney Tushingham
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed drypoint etching on laid paper by English artist Sidney Tushingham (1884-1968) titled "Peggy", c. 1920. Hand pencil signed by Tushingham lower right. Edition size ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Laid Paper
John Bull vows that he is tied to the son of Theodorus by an indissoluble band.
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Storrs, CT
John Bull jure qu'il est attaché au fils de Théodoros par un lien indissoluble. (John Bull vows that he is tied to the son of Theodorus by an indissoluble band.)
Delteil catalog365...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soldier - Original Etching by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldier is an Original Etching realized by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet in mid-19th century.
The artwork is in very good condition on a white cardboard.
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 13.78 in. W 10.04 in. D 0.04 in.
Sergeant Infantry Trenches - Lithograph by A. D de Segonzac - Early 20th Century
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in Roma, IT
Sergeant Infantry Trenches is a Vintage Offset and Lithograph print realized by Dunoyer de Segonzac.
The artwork is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
Stamp signed and Titled o...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
H 12.6 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.04 in.
The Fallen Star
By Stanley Anderson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stanley Anderson gives us this image of English street people down on their luck but still maintaining the dignity of work and appearance. The old barber clips the hair of a friend a...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Serbian Musician - Original Etching by Théodore Valério - 1854
By Theodore Valerio
Located in Roma, IT
Serbian Musician is an Original Etching realized by Theodore Valerio in 1854.
The artwork is in very good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (50x34 cm).
Hand-signed ...
Category
1850s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 11.42 in. W 7.09 in. D 0.04 in.
Portrait of General Washington - Original Etching by T. Holloway - 1794
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Roma, IT
General Washington is an Original Etching hand Watercolored realized by Thomas Holloway in 1794.
The artwork is in good condition except for some spots on the margins of the yellowe...
Category
1790s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 13.39 in. W 10.44 in. D 0.08 in.
WEIBLICHER AKT MIT BREITKREMPIGEM HUT
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Portland, ME
Corinth, Lovis. WEIBLICHER AKT MIT BREITKREMPIGEM HUT (Female Nude with Broad-Brimmed Hat). Schwartz 226A. Etching, 1916. 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, 300 x 198 mm. The earlier version, be...
Category
1910s Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of a man
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 1 /100
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Crayon, Engraving
The Little Bride.
By John Sloan
Located in Storrs, CT
The Little Bride. 1916. Etching. Morse 138. 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 (sheet 9 3/8 x 12). Series: New York City Life, tenth plate. Printed on cream wove paper with deckle edges on two sides. The...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Man Reading - Original Pencil Drawing by Auguste Andrieux - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man Reading is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Auguste Andrieux.
The artwork is in good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (55x37.5 cm).
Hand-signed by the art...
Category
19th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Pencil
H 9.45 in. W 5.12 in. D 0.04 in.
Dead Christ - Original Etching by Raphael Drouart - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Dead Christ is an Original Etching realized by Raphael Drouart (1884-1972).
The artwork is in good condition.
Hand-signed.
Numbered. Edition,2/25.
Maurice Raphaël Drouart , nato...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 13 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.04 in.
Portrait of George Washington - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1796
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of George Washington is an Original Etching hand watercolored realized by Thomas Holloway in 1796.
The arwork is after a picture realized by Stuart in 1795 (the year before...
Category
1810s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 13.39 in. W 10.63 in. D 0.08 in.
Dédié a Madame Vve. Charlet - Original Lithographs by Hippolyte Bellangé - 1846
By Hippolyte Bellangé
Located in Roma, IT
Dédié a Madame Vve. Charlet is an original artwork realized by Hippolyte Bellangé in 1846.
Original lithograph on paper. The title appear on the lower central margin "Dédié a Madame...
Category
1840s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 16.54 in. W 22.45 in. D 0.04 in.
Wayfarer - Original Etching by Auguste Brouet - Early 20th Century
By Auguste Brouet
Located in Roma, IT
Wayfarer is an original etching by the French artist Auguste Brouet.
In good condition.
Hand-signed.
Numbered. Edition of 10.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confide...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Auguste BrouetWayfarer - Original Etching by Auguste Brouet - Early 20th Century, Early 20th Century
H 8.27 in. W 6.3 in. D 0.04 in.
Man on Horseback - Original Lithograph by D.A.Marie Raffet - Mid 19th Century
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
Man on Horseback is an original artwork realized by French artist Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804 – 1860)
Lithograph print. Signed on plate on the lower right.
Good conditions e...
Category
1820s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 10.24 in. W 13.19 in. D 0.04 in.
Sergeant Infantry - Lithograph by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac - Early 20th Century
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in Roma, IT
Sergeant Infantry Trenches is a Vintage Offset and Lithograph print realized by Dunoyer de Segonzac.
The artwork is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
Stamp signed and Titled o...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 12.6 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.04 in.
Spanish Guitar Player - Original etching - Ed. Durand Ruel, 1973
By Édouard Manet
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard MANET (after)
Spanish Guitar Player, 1873
Original Etching
Engraved by Courtry under the supervision of MANET
Printed signature in the plate
On laid paper 20,5 x 30 cm (c....
Category
1870s Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
The Military Portait - Original Lithographs by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet- 1829
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
The Military Portait - The Appearance of Our Lady- The Classroom is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet.
Signed on the center and numbered (9). Edition by...
Category
1820s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 10.04 in. W 13.39 in. D 0.04 in.
Self Portrait with Saskia
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New York, NY
A very good, dark and evenly-printed impression of this etching with strong contrasts. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's third state (e) (of 6), with the vertical scratch th...
Category
1630s Baroque Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Berenice
By Louis Valtat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Berenice
Color woodcut, 1900-1910
Signed with the artist's red ink stamp (see photo)
Edition: 50 (46/50)
Signed with the artist's red ink initials stamp, Lugt 1771, Sup.
Condition: E...
Category
Early 1900s French School Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
L'Infante Marguerite (D'Après Velasquez)
By Édouard Manet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Infante Marguerite (D'Après Velasquez)
after a Manet painting in the collection of the Louvre, Paris (see photo)
Etching, 1862-1864
Unsigned (as usual)
A posthumous impression from...
Category
1860s Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Berthe
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Berthe
Etching with drypoint, 1883
Signed in the plate (see photo)
This etching was inspired by an 1882/3 pastel which the artist included in his ambitious "Femme a Paris" exhibition...
Category
1880s Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Gulli I
By Anders Zorn
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed etching on Van Gelder Zonen cream laid paper by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) titled "Gulli I", 1914. Hand pencil signed by Zorn lower right. It is also s...
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
The Old Teacher of Philosophy - Original Drypoint by Jeanne Bardey - 1913
By Jeanne Bardey
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Teacher of Philosophy is an original artwork realized by French Artist Jeanne Bardey (1872 - 1954)
Drypoint print. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, on up dated 191...
Category
1910s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
H 14.57 in. W 11.03 in. D 0.04 in.
White-throated Capuchin Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Sai a gorge blanche. Variete A. Buff. Simia capucina. v.a.", which was drawn and ...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
H 30.25 in. W 22.63 in. D 1 in.
African Mandrill Monkey: A Framed 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Audebert
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mandrill. Buff. Simia Maimon. Linn, which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
H 30.13 in. W 22.5 in. D 1.25 in.
Silvery Marmoset Amazon Monkey: Framed Audebert 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century folio-sized colored stipple engraving with hand-finishing entitled "Le Mico. Buff, Simia Argentata. Linn", which was drawn and engraved by Jean Baptiste...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
H 30.25 in. W 22.63 in. D 1 in.
Portait of Nicolas Poussin - Original Etching by Jean Pesne - 1650
Located in Roma, IT
Portait of Nicolas Poussin is an original artwork realized by French artist Jean Pesne (1623- 1700) in 1650.
Etching print. Signed on plate on the lower margin right, titled and d...
Category
1650s Baroque Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
H 13 in. W 9.26 in. D 0.04 in.
19th Century Hand coloured Rare Lithograph, India, Emily Eden, Raja Nahun & Sons
Located in La Chapelle Aubareil, FR
This rare, hand-coloured lithograph is Plate 21 of Emily Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India’, a volume of hand-coloured lithographs of sketches made in India by Em...
Category
1840s Victorian Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Paint, Lithograph
J Haid, Martin Van Meytens, Engraving, Portrait Count Ferdinand Plettenberg
Located in Greven, DE
Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767), engraver
Johann Stenglin (1715-1770), engraver
Martin van Meytens (1695-1770), inventor
Ferdinand Count of Plettenberg (1690-1737) as a Knight of the O...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Anthony van Dyck, Engraving Ernest de Mansfeld, c. 1654, Portrait, Iconographie
By (After) Anthony Van Dyck
Located in Greven, DE
A wonderfully detailed and charismatic portrait, this exquisite work illustrates the technical mastery and artistic vision of Van Dyck. Ernest de Mansfeld's stately yet approachable ...
Category
17th Century Baroque Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Rare Framed Mezzotint after Brompton
By Edward Fisher
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a large framed very rare hand-colored copperplate mezzotint engraved portrait of William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham by Edward Fisher, published in London in 1779 af...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
H 31.63 in. W 26.63 in. D 0.75 in.
The Music Room
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Music Room. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 33 state ii; Glasgow catalog 39.state iv. 5 11/16 x 8 1/2 (sheet 6 5/16 x 9 3/4). Glasgow records 52 known impressions. Go...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Patriotic League vintage poster | Christy Girl
By Howard Chandler Christy
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Patriotic League . Original Howard Chandler Christy's 1918 "Patriotic League" authentic World War 1 lithographic poster. Linen-backed and in excellent cond...
Category
1910s American Realist Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 27 in. W 20 in. D .05 in.
The Invalid's Dog - Original Lithography by D. A. M. Raffet - Mid-19th Century
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
The Invalid's Dog is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet.
Represents a Romance in music, dedicated to Mademoiselle Palmyre Lacour,music by D'Auguste Panser...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 13 in. W 9.85 in. D 0.04 in.
The Artist - Original Lithograph by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet - 1836
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet in 1836.
Signature on the lower margin, the artwork represents a gentleman with an artist.
Good conditio...
Category
1830s Modern Antique Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 8.67 in. W 11.42 in. D 0.04 in.
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Antique Portrait Prints For Sale on 1stDibs
Find a variety of antique portrait prints available on 1stDibs. Finding the ideal Modern, Old Masters or Post-Impressionist examples of these works for your living room, whether you’re looking for small- or large-size pieces, is no easy task — start by shopping our selection today. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add antique portrait prints that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of beige, gray, black, white and more. Thomas Holloway, McKenney & Hall, Paul Gavarni, Sir Leslie Ward and Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) took a thoughtful approach to this subject that are worth considering. Frequently made by artists working in etching, engraving and lithograph, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Some antique portrait prints are too large for some spaces — a variety of smaller iterations, measuring # 1 inches across, are available.
How Much are Antique Portrait Prints?
Prices for pieces in our collection of antique portrait prints start at $50 and top out at $475,000 with the average selling for $411.
Finding the Right Prints and Multiples for You
Decorating with fine-art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine-art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine-art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine-art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine-art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine-art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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In the Late Hung Liu’s Historical Portraits, Layers of Joy and Struggle Are Exposed
We spoke with the artist, in one of her last interviews, about the messages in her striking figurative works, which will be featured in a posthumous show at the National Portrait Gallery.
When Art Galleries Join Together, Everybody Wins
Art associations are known for their glitzy fairs, but these organizations do a ton of work behind the scenes to help gallerists and collectors. Here, the heads of five major art associations give us the rundown of what they do.
M.C. Escher’s Infinitely Intriguing Art Gets the Hollywood Treatment
A new film goes deep into the artist's life and mind-bending creations, revealing why his ideas are still relevant to this day.
10 Reasons Art Collectors Are Obsessed with Andy Warhol
More than three decades after his death, the prolific Pop artist and cultural icon's body of work continues to captivate. Here's a primer of some of his most notable motifs and mediums.
Get to Know the Artists Who Led the Op Art Movement
In the 1960s and '70s, the hypnotic creations of Op artists went mainstream and influenced the look of pop culture.